VW ID.4

That's strange.

I worked in Volkswagen Group Ireland for years and never heard of Weser Highway being used as a boat that docks here. It also looks like it's on it's way to Zeebrugge after leaving the UK so would be very tight to be docking in Dublin/Cork by Thursday. I have heard that there's another boat docking in Dublin on 31st March but I don't know what boat.

I'll be keeping an eye on Marine Traffic - that's for sure 😅

and that’s another boat that left my car on the port. Might be time to join a support group. If I wasn’t Supping a beer by the pool in Abu Dhabi I’d be mad..

More info on new features

https://youtu.be/oWRpW3iQB2I

https://youtu.be/zKx57f1pKFo

The park assist plus should be good for a laugh, there's several car parks near me with no lines and some nobody parks there properly anyway, so hopefully we'll see some epic fails

There seems to be some debate over whether the ID.4 1st can support it. Newer cars have extra sensors that the ID.3 1st doesn't, not sure about the ID.4

Hey all,

We managed to get a cancellation of a car, but collected / bought it only last month, so I presume its 'build date' is some months ago. The car does not give me side camera views when parking, even though I think I can see camera's in the wing mirrors. It doesn't have the Assisted parking feature, or the blind spot warnings - so I presume what will be coming to me in 3.0 will not be very much? Any ideas?

The car is a 2022 (but likely built in 2021?) Pro Business.

Thank you!

I use the travel assist a lot, the auto lane change would be a pretty nice upgrade although it's not exactly burdensome to do it manually

The swarm data could make a big difference for using the travel assist off of motorways, or even smoothing out some of the big speed changes. For example going from the M50 to M11 there's often a buildup of traffic that causes the Travel Assist to slow down quite suddenly. If it knew there was traffic ahead it would slow down in advance

The parking assistant would be nice, although I suspect a lot of more difficult spaces will confuse it. I think the recording your parking maneuver thing is a bit of a gimmick. You have to stop before your house and start the maneuver which is a waste of time.

Also outside my house there's a perpetual football game going and the kids don't really believe in avoiding cars. The parking assistant would probably have a complete breakdown stopping every 2 seconds

You can see what year it was built by the VIN. If the 10th alphanumeric character is M it’s 2021, if it’s N it’s 2022

Thank you! The VIN character you mention is N, so I guess it was only built! Thanks for explaining that.

Apparently you'll be able to set where you want to sit in the lane in the new travel assist, so you can keep slightly to the right or left

I suppose the auto lane change might be handy for people who aren't great at changing lanes to begin with. I like how it has to do the lane change in under 5 seconds, that won't fit in with the standard Irish driver's habit of trying to sneakily change lanes without indicating 😂

So far it's only the ID.3 1st editions that are confirmed to not have the extra sensors, so there might be hope for us yet

Anyone here have vw charger installed. Got mine over weekend and when I export charging data. It says KW hours is N/A and to contact customer support. Are others seeing the same, would have been handy to know? Maybe I should have gone with zappi 🤦‍♂️

Are you referring to the "Consumption" column in the export, which you get to via "Charging at home"-->"Export"?

Which version of the charge point did you get? My guess is you got the "ID. Charger Connect" model?

To see kWh values you need the "ID. Charger Pro" as it has the "MID certified energy meter" in it.

Yep, they said it’s landed, they told us today they dispatched it so it should be with them at the main dealer this week, not sure what boat it was on, just delighted it’s in the country

I got a big ding in a bright blue new car recently (v windy day in a retail park carpark, big dent and lots of red paint transfer), and while it looked bad, right in the middle of the door, it was returned good as new for €180 by a paintless dent removal crowd in north Dublin. I genuinely couldn’t even see where the dent was.

Range coming right back up last few days! Had 218km for 45% on the dash this morning = ~480km for 100%.

Thursday marks one year since I got my 1st edition, coming up on 21000km. Some good, some negatives!

Bad (and these really seem to get over focussed upon):

Software isn't great.

Touchscreens are downright dangerous (but that's not just a VW issue).

Winter range takes a bigger hit vis a vis summer compared to the Leaf. 'Apparently' going to be sorted with a software update.

Doors don't open sometimes because they've tried to be clever with fancy pants electronic locks which are too slow.

Moderate acceleration.

Good:

Smooth as hell to drive.

Great summer range (I touch the 500km).

Loads of space.

Excellent road anticipation / regen setup. For those that don't know the car uses radar for traffic and (presumably) GPS to 'know' the road situation its in and uses regen to slow down for obstacles, bends etc as needed. This actually works really well (and I'm usually the last person to praise intrusive modern safety systems).

Surprisingly good value (1st editions anyway). Not sure why anyone would pay more for an Enyaq unless they prefer the looks.

For the EV newcomer, it's an easy step into electric driving.